Satisfaction with democracy and perceived performance of the welfare state in Europe

Sirovátka, Tomáš; Guzi, Martin; Saxonberg, Steven

doi:10.1177/0958928718757685

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“…Beyond examining election outcomes, future studies could also examine how winning and losing influences perceptions of government performance, especially among strong partisans (Christmann 2018;Quaranta and Martini 2016;Sirovátka, Guzi, and Saxonberg 2018). It is likely that full winners would be the least critical of elected officials while full losers would be the most critical.…”

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The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States

VanDusky-Allen

Utych

2021

State Politics Policy Q.

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In this paper, we analyze how variations in partisan representation across different levels of government influence Americans’ satisfaction with the democracy in the United States. We conduct two survey experiments and analyze data from the 2016 American National Election Study postelection survey. We find that Americans are the most satisfied with democracy when their most preferred party controls both the federal and their respective state governments. However, we also find that even if an individual’s least preferred party only controls one level of government, they are still more satisfied with democracy than if their most preferred party controls no levels of government. These findings suggest that competition in elections across both the national and state government, where winning and losing alternates between the two parties, may have positive outcomes for attitudes toward democracy.

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States

VanDusky-Allen

Utych

2021

State Politics Policy Q.

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“…The countries listed in the study are categorised by their welfare regimes as defined by Esping-Andersen (1990) and other scholars developing this typology (Ferrera, 1996;Fenger, 2007;Ebbinghaus, 2012) into four European regions. The welfare regimes typology is often used in social sciences research (Ebbinghaus, 2012;Kammer et al, 2012;Hansen and Slagsvold, 2016;Sirovátka et al, 2019) for reasons similar to this study. The paper finds this typology very useful due to its grouping of countries similar in welfare politics, geographic location, economic, institutional and cultural settings, the prevalence of activities, the average level of QoL and other vital macro-factors (Walker, 2004;Eikemo et al, 2008;Borges Neves et al, 2013;Di Novi et al, 2015;Sirovátka et al, 2019).…”

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The effect of roles prescribed by active ageing on quality of life across European regions

Lakomý

2021

Ageing and Society

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The active ageing approach supports a set of roles or activities that are supposed to be beneficial for older adults. This paper reassesses the benefits of activities for the quality of life by (a) analysing many activities at the same time to control each other, (b) using panel data to detect the effects of activities over time, and (c) performing separate analyses for four European regions to test the context-specificity of the effects. The effects of roles in later life are tested on panel data from three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project. The results of fixed-effects regression show that only some activities – volunteering, participating in a club and physical activity – increase the quality of life, and that care-giving within the household has the opposite effect. Moreover, the beneficial effects are much weaker and less stable than the other types of regression suggest; they are beneficial only in some regions, and their effect is much weaker than the effects of age, health and economic situation. Therefore, the active ageing approach and activity theory should reflect the diverse conditions and needs of older adults to formulate more-context-sensitive and less-normative policy recommendations.

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“…In the post-war era, Social Democrats and others involved in the development of the welfare state regularly argued that welfare policy was justifiable not only in material terms but necessary for democracy itself. Regardless of the normative value of such statements, there can be little doubt that the welfare state has important implications for democracy (Sirovátka et al, 2019). In this current context, scholarship that recognises this fact would seem to be more valuable than ever.…”

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Welfare capabilities: Evaluating distributional inequalities and welfare policy in advanced democracies

Hannah

Brown

Gibbons

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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While the welfare state literature has made great advances in describing and explaining policy, comparatively less time has been spent systematically examining the outcomes of those welfare policies. Prominent debates have largely centred on the extent to which welfare states have been retrenched and whether they can be effectively classified by regime type. This article argues that while such debates have resulted in valuable theoretical and empirical advances, there is both a need and an opportunity to focus more closely on the outcomes of welfare policy. We propose using the ‘capability approach’ as an evaluative framework to consider differences in outcomes across mature welfare states. The approach, as operationalised here, regards the real-world opportunities that individuals hold, rather than only the material resources provided to them, as being essential to understanding their welfare. The article uses a new capabilities-oriented measure of welfare to make a preliminary evaluation of the outcomes associated with different types of welfare policy regimes. The measure emphasises distributional inequalities associated with the domains of health, education and the economic conditions experienced by individuals. We apply it to 18 advanced welfare states using data sourced from the 2016 wave of the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Better Life Index.

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Satisfaction with democracy and perceived performance of the welfare state in Europe

Cited by 22 publications

References 51 publications

The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States

The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States

The effect of roles prescribed by active ageing on quality of life across European regions

Welfare capabilities: Evaluating distributional inequalities and welfare policy in advanced democracies

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